Stanford Library Resources
The Lane Medical Library at Stanford is open to the public, and they cover medical and psychiatric topics that we do not cover here at the PGSP Research Library. You can go there to get photocopies of journal articles or to download and print or email to yourself articles from journals in electronic fulltext format. You can also check books out from Lane Library, but you’ll need to visit the PGSP library during normal business hours to get the borrowing card for Lane Library. Check the Stanford University Libraries catalog to see if they have a book or journal by going to http://jenson.stanford.edu and choose browse then enter the journal or book title and click on either the Title button for a book or the Periodical Title button for a journal.
Green Library at Stanford does not offer unrestricted access by the public, but you can gain entrance to the library in two ways:
One way is to borrow the PGSP institutional Stanford library card, which is available from Scott Hines or Geeta Patangay in the PGSP library. This card lets you in the door at Green Library, but must be returned to the PGSP library within 24 hours (by Monday if borrowed on a Friday). The other way to gain access to Green Library is to go there and enter information about yourself into the computers at the front entrance and show them a picture ID. This method gets you into Green Library 7 times in the next 12 months. Our advice is to use the PGSP institutional Stanford Library card for most of your visits, and reserve the 7 access method for times when you need to go to Green Library on a whim, late on a Saturday night, for example, when you cannot get the PGSP institutional card.
You can check out books from Green Library only by purchasing borrowing coupons at the PGSP Library. Each coupon costs $5.00 and allows you to check out one book. PGSP students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy are allowed to have Stanford Green Library borrowing coupons at no charge.
The Education Library at Stanford is also open to the public, though PGSP cannot check out books from the Education Library.
Unfortunately the Law Library and the Business School Library are not open to students who do not attend those respective schools.